Monday, 17 May 2021 05:12 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Former 1MDB CEO Mohd Hazem Abd Rahman is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur High Court January 6, 2021. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 Datuk Seri Najib Razak as the prime minister then was involved in Low Taek Jho’s “nefarious agenda” for 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) when the government-owned firm’s subsidiary raised US$3 billion of funds in 2013, a former 1MDB CEO claimed in court today.
Mohd Hazem Abd Rahman, a former CEO of 1MDB from March 2013 to early January 2015, said this while being cross-examined as the 10th prosecution witness in Najib’s ongoing trial over power abuse and money laundering charges involving more than RM2 billion of 1MDB funds.
To set things in motion, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
(pic) launched Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) s Cloud and Cybersecurity Services for the government – a key step towards Malaysia s digital transformation. The government has targeted the migration of 80% of public data to hybrid cloud systems by the end of 2022 as a measure to empower public sector cloud computing services, TM group CEO Imri Mokhtar said at the launch event on Monday (April 12). Thanks to its ability to handle large volumes of information, cloud services will enable big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of things and other applications used to strengthen the delivery of government services to all Malaysians.